GIVING IN PAYMENT

By SovConn | December 6, 2016

giving in payment.Civil law. The act of discharging a debt by giving something to the

creditor (with the creditor’s consent) other than what was originally called for. La. Civ. Code art.

  1. • The phrase is a translation of the French dation en paiement and derives from the Roman

datio in solutum. See DATION EN PAIEMENT. Cf. ACCORD AND SATISFACTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

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